So we think the Emmys are stupid. We don't really care that twoshows we love won big prizes. We still think they're about as relevant as the Grammys. Which is to say not at all.

Which is why we were debating even posting Conan's funny opening to the show. But we've decided to, in part because some right-wingers got in a tizzy because the show aired only hours after the Kentucky plane crash.

And we're not going to analyze this, complain about it, talk about how awesome it looks, or anything like that. We're just going to post the pictures and then leave. And we'll also point out that he does not have a giant gun, and he transforms into a jet:

Zap2It is reporting that Saturday Night Live is
losing three cast members: Horatio Sanz, who we kind of like sometimes,
but has probably run his course on the show; Kenan Thompson, who we
like, but probably would be better suited to film and/or sitcom roles;
and Chris Parnell, who we think has a valuable role as "go-to straight
man" on the show, and who also starred in the sketch that arguably "saved" the show and ignited the viral video backlash

A good chunk of males aged 18-45 today have already purchased their copies of the newest installment of Madden. The game's popularity has exploded to the point where EA's new ad campaign likens its release date to a holiday, "Madden Day."

And that's fine for some. But not us. We're done with Madden, personally, because, like the recent NCAA release, we think it's going to basically be nothing but a roster/schedule update with a gimmicky gameplay addition (move your lead blocker on run plays! And don't forget to check your QB's cone of vision, and perform a vicious hit with the hit stick on D!) tacked on so you don't feel like you're paying $50 for a roster update, even though you are.

This half of the Slop Culture tag-team is, as you may have gathered, hopelessly obsessed with TheSimpsons. So, as is to be expected, we tore into our shiny copy of the Season 8 DVD set and watched the Hank Scorpio episode with commentary. And we heard someone - Josh Weinstein, perhaps? - mention that "on the internet, Hank Scorpio is the favorite Albert Brooks character" in the show's history.

Like most folks, Slop Culture doesn't just have one email address (slopculture@phx.com, in case you want to send us breaking news). We have an address on Yahoo as well. Yahoo does a mighty fine job blocking spam--about 200 junk mails a day. But there is one that keeps slipping through. Apparently, there's really lonely married women who want to fuck us.

From the “and your point is?”
bin, news agencies are shocked (shocked!) by the newly released Zogby poll
which discovered that 75% of Americans
knew 2 of the 7 dwarfs, yet only 25% could name 2 of the 7 Supreme Court
justices.

Reuters non-ironic headline “Current
Events Dwarfed by Pop Culture,” got the Snow
White reference in there, but did not address the simple fact that popular
culture is called so for a fucking reason.

One of our co-workers was standing in front of Phoenix HQ today when she spotted a small plane circling Fenway with a huge Snakes on a Plane banner waving behind it. While the web hype peaked a month early, and the little matter of a bunch of douchbags wanting to blow up 10 airplanes over the Atlantic this Wednesday might have put a damper on any plane-type horror (thank god there were no spelunking terror-plots thwarted last week), Hollywood is still trying to sell the idea that snakes on planes is fun! Never mind the fact that they wanted us to go to the junket but were unwilling to show us the movie ahead of time.

Big props to Screenhead (and, we're sure, like six million other blogs) for being on the ball about this, but some intrepid YouTube-r has posted three videos of scenes removed from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (otherwise known as "One of the Two Good Ones") that are not as of yet available on any of the DVDs, including this touching Anchorhead reunion:

We look at how people arrive at this site, and we've learned that one of the things our readers like seeing on here (aside from nude photos of MTV's reality stars, which, before you ask, we still don't have) is Halo stuff.

First, full disclosure: personally, we're not down with Halo. We're more into the action-adventure games.

As you may have read somewhere, Wikimania 2006 hit Cambridge this past weekend. Ian and Jessica were there and reported to Slop Culture that Wikipedia founder James Wales opened his first-day speech with the now-infamous Colbert Report segment on Wikipedia:

As you may have heard, the Wikipedia entries on, among others, Stephen Colbert, Oregon, George Washington, and African elephants were edited shortly after the airing of the episode to reflect his requested changes.

Fans stormed the Slop Culture offices last week demanding a retraction of our story that claimed that Roadhouse, Rowdy Huffington's 1989 masterpiece, had replaced Star Wars as the ultimate movie to reference (otherwise know as the "if you're still saying 'That's no moon, it's a space station' when a stripper first unveils her boobies at the club, you need to get some new fuckin lines" post)

In this week's Phoenix you can read about Brendon Small's new Metalocalypse, which premieres Sunday at 11:45 pm on Adult Swim. But those of you unfamiliar with Brendon Small's work on Home Movies might not be excited. So, to prepare you, here's a nicely edited series of clips from a classic Home Movies episode that showcases Small's musical talents: